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Dorian · 05-31-2007, 11:48 PM

Hi, everyone. I recently was granted shell access by the kind folks at Irex but I am having a bit of trouble getting started hacking my Iliad. I have been reading these forums for a few hours and it seems as though I am missing some sort of crucial first step.

You see, I was expecting to be able to mount my Iliad using USB and then just cd .. until I got to / (root), and then just drop an ssh client (dropbear or something) in init.d so I could login at my leisure after next bootup. My problem is, however, when I mount the Iliad as a USB drive, the topmost directory seems to be the one containing the content folders (newspapers, books, notes, etc.) Am I in some sort of chroot jail?

As anyone can see, I am missing something very obvious. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dorian

05-31-2007, 11:48 PM	#24
Dorian Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2007 Device: Iliad	trouble getting started with wire(less)d.sh Hi, everyone. I recently was granted shell access by the kind folks at Irex but I am having a bit of trouble getting started hacking my Iliad. I have been reading these forums for a few hours and it seems as though I am missing some sort of crucial first step. You see, I was expecting to be able to mount my Iliad using USB and then just cd .. until I got to / (root), and then just drop an ssh client (dropbear or something) in init.d so I could login at my leisure after next bootup. My problem is, however, when I mount the Iliad as a USB drive, the topmost directory seems to be the one containing the content folders (newspapers, books, notes, etc.) Am I in some sort of chroot jail? As anyone can see, I am missing something very obvious. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Dorian